The Art of Illumination, as Practised During the Middle Ages: With a Description of the Metals, Pigments, and Processes Employed by the Artists at Different Periods
The Art of Illumination, as Practised During the Middle Ages: With a Description of the Metals, Pigments, and Processes Employed by the Artists at Different Periods
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...uterine vellum, in a Spanish hand of the end of the fifteenth century. It is richly illuminated throughout, and ornamented with occasional borders of various designs, chiefly of scrolls and flowers, sometimes on a gold, and sometimes on coloured grounds, enclosing numerous miniatures of the finest Flemish art. From the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...uterine vellum, in a Spanish hand of the end of the fifteenth century. It is richly illuminated throughout, and ornamented with occasional borders of various designs, chiefly of scrolls and flowers, sometimes on a gold, and sometimes on coloured grounds, enclosing numerous miniatures of the finest Flemish art. From the arms of Don Francisco de Boias, the second son of Don Alonso de Escobar y Cazeres and his wife, D. Mariana de Boias, appearing at folio 437, it would appear to have been executed for that person. He was employed by Ferdinand and Isabella as their ambassador to the Court of the Emperor Maximilian I, to negotiate the double marriage of the archduchess with the Infante Don Juan, and the Infanta Donna Juana with the Archduke Philip, governor of the Netherlands. He accompanied the archduchess in her journey from the Imperial court into Spain, where her marriage took place in April, 1497. There can be little doubt, therefore, that it was on the occasion of the celebration of this marriage that De Boias presented this volume to Queen Isabella. The first of the following plates, which are taken from this volume, is an example of the character of the borders by which the text is surrounded and divided into columns throughout. The second is from an exquisitely finished miniature of St. Barbara. The border to this drawing is of silver with green bands crossing it. The border to that on the previous leaf is of blue and gold. They have evidently been copied from tapestries or hangings. The following account of this saint is taken from Mrs. Jameson's " Sacred and Legendary Art: "--"The legend of St. Barbara was introduced from the East, about the same time with that of St. Catherine. She is the armed Pallas or Bellona of the antique mythology...
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